Dates:
Competition online briefing: 03 March 2025
Competition closes: 09 April 2025, 11am
Applicants notified: 13 May 2025
Project start date & duration: From 01 September 2025, between 6-12 months (feasibility & industrial research projects); 12-18 months (experimental development projects)
Scope
Your project must help to grow your innovation activities in the health technology cluster in West Yorkshire, both during and after your project. This could be demonstrated by your local innovation activities, the value that your innovation activities create in the cluster and your engagement with other innovation active organisations in the cluster, e.g., Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber. Projects must focus on human health technology innovation and can address any human health challenge, including, but not limited to, overcoming health inequalities, global net zero challenges in healthcare, major health conditions, the prevention of disease, earlier and better detection and diagnosis of disease, other challenges that can be tackled with health technologies.
Specific Themes
Projects can focus on one or more of the following: medical devices; diagnostics, including In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD); digital health, including data driven health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). Note this list is not exhaustive; where you can show your proposal fits within the scope of this competition, you can focus on other themes.
Projects that will not be funded
Collaborative R&D projects, those with a large capital infrastructure and projects not carried out by SMEs. Projects not invited by one of Innovate UK’s investor partners are ineligible.
Eligibility
- Subsidy Control and EC State Aid funding rules apply
- Applicants must be a UK registered SME and projects must be single applicant only. R&D work must be carried out in the UK and project results exploited from UK. Subcontractors must be UK based, with costs justified and appropriate to the total costs.
- Must be invited to apply by your investor partner and have discussed and agreed your proposal with your investor partner before submitting your proposal.
Funding Rates
Total eligible project costs (£3.9million pot):
- Feasibility Studies: £50,000-£300,000; 6-12 months duration
- Industrial Research: £100,000-£1million; 6-12 months duration
- Experimental Development: £250,000-£2million; 12-18 months duration
| Project maturity (up to but not including commercialisation) | |||
| Organisation size | Feasibility
(TRL 2-3) |
Industrial Research (TRL3-5) | Experimental Development
(TRL 6-7) |
| Micro/small business | <70% | <70% | <45% |
| Medium sized business | <60% | <60% | <35% |
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com | https://www.pnoconsultants.com/uk/
